The Toronto Public Library says its systems, which were the target of a cyberattack in late October, will remain down until 2024.

According to my librarian wife, this is one of the largest library systems in the country, if not the world.

  • @wintermutehal
    39•9 months ago

    Of all the targets, why a library? One of the few places that is still for near everyone

    • Flying SquidOP
      26•9 months ago

      And with limited budgets. Libraries have trouble making ends meet. They’re non-profits. They couldn’t afford the pay the ransome.

    • Teon
      21•9 months ago

      Free information, education and entertainment without restrictions is a danger to fascism.
      Destroying that empowers psychopaths to be able to brainwash it’s citizens.

      This is why we need public libraries all over the world. And a free open, uncensored internet to accompany it.
      Each individual should make decisions about what is appropriate for themselves, not a government, a religion or terrorists.

    • @Fades
      13•9 months ago

      Don’t these right wing crazies have vendettas against the public library systems? Also there are lots of foreign hacker/troll farms that would love to do things like this

      Obviously there is no proof of this out there, but they are definitely possibilities

    • mo_ztt ✅English
      11•9 months ago

      Every attack of this type is hurting someone in the world. Some are worthier targets than others but the people who are committing the attacks definitely DGAF about the impact.

    • BarrierWithAshes
      7•9 months ago

      Most of these attacks are just sent out to everyone. Doubt the hacker specifically targeted a library.

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    The people who would attack a library system deserve to be tarred and feathered before being sent to live inside an active volcano.